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Building Websites with

Joomla! 1.5 Beta 1

The best-selling Joomla tutorial guide updated for the

latest download release

Hagen Graf

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

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Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5 Beta 1

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First published: February 2007

Production Reference: 1160207

Published by Packt Publishing Ltd.

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ISBN 978-1-84719-238-7

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First published in the German language under the title "Joomla! 1.5" by

Addison-Wesley, an imprint of Pearson Education Deutschland GmbH, München.

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Credits

Author

Hagen Graf

Translator

Wolfgang Spegg

Development Editor

Louay Fatoohi

Technical Editor

Divya Menon

Editorial Manager

Dipali Chittar

Project Manager

Patricia Weir

Indexer

Bhushan Pangaonkar

Proofreader

Chris Smith

Production Coordinator

Manjiri Nadkarni

Cover Designer

Shantanu Zagade

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About the Author

Hagen Graf was born in July 1964. Born and raised in Lower Saxony, Germany, his

first contact with a computer was in the late seventies with a Radioshack TRS 80. As a

salesperson, he organized his customers' data by programming suitable applications.

This gave him a big advantage over other salesmen. With the intention of honing

his skills, he joined evening courses in programming and became a programmer.

Nowadays he works in his wife's consulting company as a trainer, consultant, and

programmer (http://www.cocoate.com).

Hagen Graf has published other books in German, about the Apache web server,

about security problems in Windows XP, about Mambo, and about Drupal. Since

2001, he has been engaged in a nonprofit e-learning community called "machmit.org e.V.", as well as in several national and international projects. All the projects

are related to content management, community building, and harnessing the power

of social software like wikis and weblogs. He chose Joomla! CMS because of its

simplicity and easy-to-use administration. You can access and comment on his blog

(http://www.bloghouse.org/en/hagen).

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This is the third time a book of mine has been translated from

German to English. It isn't easy to organize the translation in another

language in a reasonable way, especially on a topic on Open Source

Software. One point is that most of the software is developed

in international communities basically in the English language.

Another point is the speed of the development. Release fast, release

often! Today we have Joomla! 1.5 Beta 1 and the development is

going on.

It is now time for thanks...

I wish to thank the Joomla community who made this wonderful

world wide project possible.

I also wish to thank the Packt Publishing team, especially Louay,

Divya, Dipali, Bhushan, Chris, Manjiri, and Patricia. I also wish

to thank Alex Kempkens, core member of the Joomla! devteam. I

also thank Tom Bohaček, Anne-Kathrin Merz, and Andy Miller for

their templates.

They all have done an excellent job!

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Table of Contents

Preface 1

Chapter 1: Terms, Concepts, and Deliberations 7

Content Management System 7

A Quick Glance into History 8

Joomla!—How was it Developed? 11

Structure of a WCMS 13

Front End and Back End 13

Access Rights 13

Content 13

Extensions 13

Components 14

Templates 14

Module 14

Plug-ins 14

Workflow 14

Configuration Settings 15

Joomla! as Real Estate 15

Joomla! Versions 16

Numbering System of Joomla! Versions 16

Roadmap 17

Changes in Detail 18

Internationalization 18

User Plug-ins 18

XML-RPC support 18

Support of Several Databases 18

FTP System 19

Overhaul of the Joomla! Framework 19

Web Accessibility 19

Search Engine Friendliness 19

Google Summer of Code Projects 19

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Table of Contents

[ ii ]

Joomla! Features 20

Examples of Joomla! Pages 21

Joomla.org 21

Ada Gaffney Shaff, USA 22

Janette Norton, France 23

Urth.tv, USA 24

unric.org, Europe 25

Summary 25

Chapter 2: Installation 27

Client-Server System 27

Accessing a Joomla! Website on the Internet 27

Technical Requirements for Joomla! 28

Necessary Elements for a Joomla! Installation 28

Local Test Environment 29

Windows Operating System 29

Linux Operating System 29

Mac OS X Operating System 29

Production Environment 30

Rented Virtual Server 30

Your Own Server 30

Setting Up the Local Server Environment 31

Windows 31

XAMPP for Windows 32

Linux 35

SUSE > 9.1 35

Debian/Ubuntu 36

Your Own Server at a Provider 36

Joomla! Installation on a Virtual Server on the Net 36

Joomla! Installation 38

Selecting a Directory for Installation 38

An Example 38

Directory 38

Extracting 40

Joomla! Web Installer 41

Step 1: Choose Language 41

Step 2: Pre-Installation Check 42

Step 3: License 43

Step 4: Database Configuration 44

Step 5: FTP Configuration 46

Step 6: Configuration 46

Step 7: Finish 48

Summary 50

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Table of Contents

[ iii ]

Chapter 3: A Tour of Your New Website 51

Front End 51

Menus 53

Top Menu 53

Main Menu 54

Other Menu 54

Content 54

What is Content? 55

First Page/Front Page 56

The Latest Messages/The Most Often Read Messages 57

Advertising 57

Banner Area 58

Functions 58

Polling 59

Who is Online? 60

Feeds 60

Search Field 60

Decorative Elements 61

Back End 61

Summary 64

Chapter 4: Customizing Joomla! 65

Configuration of Joomla! Administration 65

Help Menu 67

Joomla! Help 67

System Info 68

Site Menu 69

Control Panel 70

User Manager 70

Editing Users 72

Adding New Users 76

Media Manager 77

Creating a Directory 78

Uploading a File 79

Global Configuration 80

Site 81

Users 86

Content 88

Server 91

Logout 96

Menus Menu 96

Menu Manager 97

Main Menu 98

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Table of Contents

[ iv ]

Trash Manager 106

Creating a New Menu 107

Content Menu 113

Article Manager 114

Creating a New Article 118

Article Trash 127

Section Manager 128

Category Manager 130

Frontpage Manager 132

Article Statistics 133

Editing Content from the Front End 134

Tools 135

Private Messaging 135

Mass Mails 136

Global Check-In 137

Summary 138

Chapter 5: Components and Extensions 139

Components Menu 139

Banners 139

Banner Clients 140

Manage Banners 141

Contacts 145

Contact Manager 145

Category Manager 149

News Feeds 150

Polls 152

Web Links 154

Links 155

Categories 156

Extensions Menu 157

Install/Uninstall 157

Module Manager 158

Site Modules 158

Banner 160

Breadcrumbs 161

Footer 162

Main Menu 162

Statistics 165

Archive 165

Sections 165

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